Tutorial 23/11

1) Historical text #1: The Breakfast Club

  •  close textual analysis

2) Continue with contemporary text (suicide: more of a central focus)
  • wider contexts 
  • Has teenage metal health got worse? and/or Statistics for suicide and depression
  • Is society more aware of the issue? (letter to parents from school about the show) - more sympathetic to metal health problems, changing attitudes, less stigma, more emotionally literate society
3) Consider high school shootings 
  • reference: Bowling for Columbine (doc) and Elephant (film) - allows for more demonisation and less sympathy fro 'victim'
4) Complete bibliography (online) - Sort out fonts

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